Projects

Publications

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  1. Hao Chen, Renzheng Zhang, Scott S. Howard. “DAPS++: Rethinking Diffusion Inverse Problems with Decoupled Posterior Annealing.” European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026.
    arXiv · PDF · ECCV poster
  2. Julian Najera, Hao Chen, Scott Howard, Meenal Datta. “Using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy to Probe the Metabolic Peritumor Microenvironment and Beyond.” Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 1–16, 2026.
    Springer · DOI
  3. Hao Chen, Scott S. Howard. “Improving Richardson–Lucy Deconvolution with Diffusion Priors for Fluorescence Microscopy.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.25924, 2026.
    arXiv · PDF
  4. Julian Najera*, Hao Chen*, Bianca Batista, Frank Ketchum, Aktar Ali, Pinar Zorlutuna, Scott Howard, Meenal Datta. “Instant fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy reveals mechano-metabolic reprogramming of stromal cells in breast peritumor microenvironment.” iScience, 29(6), 115931, 2026. (*Equal contribution)
    DOI · PubMed · PMC · bioRxiv
  5. Hao Chen, Julian Najera, Dagmawit Geresu, Meenal Datta, Cody Smith, Scott Howard. “Zero-Shot Denoising for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy with Intensity-Guided Learning.” Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, pp. 4719–4728, 2025.
    arXiv · PDF · IEEE Xplore · Slides
  6. Hao Chen, Julian Najera, Alice Burchett, Dagmawit Geresu, Meenal Datta, Scott Howard. “Two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy of autofluorescence under cellular differentiation.” Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XXV (SPIE Photonics West), Proc. SPIE 13324, pp. 99–103, 2025.
    DOI
  7. Hao Chen, Julian Najera, Dagmawit Geresu, Meenal Datta, Scott Howard. “Experimental investigation of noise characterization in real-time, multiphoton fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy.” Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XXV (SPIE Photonics West), Proc. SPIE 13324, pp. 24–29, 2025.